seaworthiness
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- unseaworthiness noun
Example Sentences
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To complicate matters, a long-lost sibling, also a pirate with his own troubling history, is here to judge the crew’s seaworthiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
Questions have also been raised about the seaworthiness of the vessels, which are both over 50 years old, according to Marine Traffic.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
Despite the ship’s continued seaworthiness, it was converted to a barge, then burned for scrap metal.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023
Lochridge disagreed with OceanGate about the best way to demonstrate the asset’s seaworthiness, and objected to OceanGate’s decision to perform dives without prior “non-destructive testing” to the vessel’s hull to prove its integrity.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
In capacity, speed, maneuverability, and seaworthiness, those Eurasian ships were far superior to the rafts that carried out trade between the New World’s most advanced societies, those of the Andes and Mesoamerica.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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